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Dragnet Motor City Momentum: Sox at Tigersby Cameron on May 7 at 6:12PM | comments (0)
[ comments (0) ] [ BallHype ] Tonight, the Sox win streak has a chance to reach six-sided di proportions, for those of you who happen to be inclined toward Dungeons and Dragons references. For those of you who aren't, i.e., everyone, we're just trying to say that Boston has won five straight, and one more makes it an even half-dozen. Clay Buchholz was on the mound when this whole movement got started, so he's the one who gets to try and keep it rolling a second time through the rotation. He has a very worthy young adversary in the opposing bullpen, with Armando Gallaraga tossing the pill for Detroit. To say that Gallaraga has been a bright spot of the Detroit rotation in the early season is a vast understatement. He's 2-1 with a 1.88 ERA, and he's been every bit as impressive as those numbers seem to say he is.It'll also be interesting to see what the Detroit lineup does against Buchholz, since this will is their maiden voyage against his Bugs Bunny curve and change-up. The results the second time around against Tampa were nearly as good as the first - in fact the final result was better, of course - so it may be that opposing hitters don't gain a ton off him in seeing him more. Or maybe they do and we haven't seen enough repeat feats to judge Buchholz's second-time effectiveness. Either way, the Sox hitters will have to find tip offs from Gallaraga for the first time tonight, too. That might just slow them down, considering the fact that they've been teeing off against Detroit's first two offerings - Jeremy Bonderman and Nate Robertson - and have seemed to have a bit of a tougher time against rookie pitchers in recent years. Of course, you wouldn't have known that from watching Manny last night, would you? Regardless, here's the lineups for the Sox and Tigers again tonight, assuming they get the game in, of course. There's a tarp on top of Comerica Field right now, and tarps are never a good thing. |
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